Subject:  MSR The Lost World
Author:  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Date:  8/18/2002

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"The Lost World" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,1912  

This is the second book in the "Professor Challenger" series.

"And, after all, this opening chapter will seem to the reader to have nothing to do with my narrative; and yet there would have been no narrative without it, for it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.  Behold me, then, at the office of the Daily Gazette, on the staff of which I was a most insignificant unit, with the settled determination that very night, if possible, to find the quest which should be worthy of my Gladys!  Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification?  Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), was a Scottish novelist, short story writer and doctor. He supported his medical studies by writing short stories and eventually, due to the great popularity of his main character Sherlock Holmes, gave up the practice of medicine and became a full-time writer. 

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